After all this time, I finally had something "meaningful" to post here, and now I don't have the foggiest idea of what it was.

I should mention that "meaningful" is relative, and it certainly wasn't earth-shaking. I'm not even sure it would have meant anything to anyone but me, but I do think at least it meant something to me.

This seems to be making the rounds, and it finally roped me in. I'm such a lemming.

You Are 25% Strange!

You are very slightly strange. This means you are quite normal. You don't exactly freak out old grandmas or anything. You most likely fit in well with the crowd. Hey, it's okay, being normal ain't so bad.

I was looking through the death notices (OK, first mistake!) of the local newspaper where I grew up, to see if there was anything about the death of a friend's mother, and instead I found this.

Just for the record, though we knew each other, we were never best friends or anything, but we were certainly far from enemies. As with about 99.99% of my high school class, we lost touch after graduation, and I never really knew what happened to Bruce, though I guess had I been paying attention, I should have known!

In any case, Bruce was a really good guy, and it just pains me more than I can explain that his years are over way too soon. My heart goes out to his friends and family.

This means that compared to the eight other Enneagram types, you have a strong sense of perception as well as a curious and innovative mind. In fact, like many Experimenters, you have a strong drive to understand how things work.

A couple of weeks ago I received my real estate tax bills for the current year. A good time was had by all. OK, so I lie a bit.

Anyway, I open them, and after looking at the amounts due and purging (a new weight loss program -- the tax purging program :P), I read the special information section. And then I read it again. And again.

It says:

Payments made by check only may be placed in the mailbox on the wall located outside the tax office.

I finally couldn't take it anymore and called the tax office. I figured this was a very stupid question, so I mentioned this to the nice woman who answered the phone. I told her what the tax bill says, and asked if that means that if I pay by check it HAS to be deposited in the mailbox outside the tax office. I didn't feel so stupid because she didn't know either, and she transferred me to someone who might know. I mentioned to this next person that I had taken a bunch of stupid pills in the morning, and now she has to pay because of it. So, we go through this again, and she asks if this is on the bill itself. I said it was, and started reading it to her (the second time I had read it out loud), and before I finished the sentence, I realized what it actually says, and that what it SAYS is not what I READ.

What it is, is... ONLY checks can be put in that mailbox, so someone isn't going to put thousands of dollars in CASH into the mailbox. I'm still able to mail the check in, or more importantly to them (and I guess to me, too), my bank is able to mail the check to them, because if they think I'd remember to write them a check, they are wrong. We love scheduling payments in advance. And I love it when I'm able to understand the language I've presumably spoken and written for the vast majority of this life.

So, I guess I was actually reading "Payments made by check may only be placed" instead of "only may be placed". Or, I'm dyslexic. Or, I'm just nucking futz.

Last time I ordered from my local Chinese restaurant I got a very strange fortune in the fortune cookie. I can't even remember enough of it now to try to explain it, but it wasn't so much a fortune as it was advice, or even admonishment.

Tonight's "fortune"?

You need to forgive that person today.Just believe me.

WTF?!?!?!?!?!

OK, I believe you -- now I just need to know who I need to forgive, and while we're at it, for what would be good, too :x

If someone's trying to get me to stop ordering from there, well, it might be working.

For what it's worth, you're forgiven, even if I don't know who you are, or for what you're being forgiven, but, well, you're forgiven.

July 25th, 2007 (06:19 am)current location: 08844current mood: Contrite
current song: Today In New York

I normally don't post much here. I read a lot, every day, matter of fact. Most days, several times, even. But as I'm sure you've noticed, I really don't post much here, either comments of my friends' posts, or, well, posting original stuff for sure.

But yesterday... I actually posted comments in 3 separate postings of friends. Did anyone notice what happened yesterday?

I hereby apologize for breaking the SF Power Grid AND for taking down all of Live Journal. I didn't mean to do it, but there can really be no other explanation, and for that, I take full responsibility.

I feel better now.

PS -- 850,000 moods, and I need to make up one. I am SO hard to please :P

All of a sudden tonight, I'm getting a bunch of Fin scans to port 22253 from a Comcast domain here in NJ. It's happened about a dozen times, always the same ports -- remote 57498, local 22253. My firewall is blocking them, but was just curious WTF it is.

I've been unable to find about anything about port 22253 online, so I was wondering if anyone out there in Live Journal land might know.

You are... 0% unique and 5% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy guys). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 21

(The average level of weirdness is: 27.You are weirder than 46% of other LJers.)

I get this wonderful (?) Weekly Product Recall and Safety Alerts Newsletter from lawcash.com; I'm sure they want me to spend money with them, but that would require having some and wanting to. There's two strikes from the get go.

Anyway, mostly the details don't mean a whole lot to me, but I make believe I'm informed of things.

Tonight's "Food Allergies" lead article, however, deserves an honorable mention:

You may buy into the values of society, but you just can't seem to fit into it. You've always been a bit too prone to over-reacting. On the bright side you can withstand extremely high energy people and environments just as easily as you can low energy ones. You might do comparatively well hanging out with Phosphorous people as a result. In fact, you are probably the best suited person to try to shape their efforts into something constructive... unfortunately, that would require your actively involving yourself with someone, which you are generally loathe to do. The ideal job for you would be working within a nuclear power plant... alone.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

Since the Johari experiment was such a success (major thank yous to the two people who apparently actually read my blather), I hereby offer you the opportunity to tell me my negative personality traits. My guess this is what most of you have been waiting for, so, go at it :D

So you pick adjectives that describe the person and then the person sees what adjectives others pick. The idea is that you get some clue which things about your personal self assessment make sense to others and vice versa.